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Bridges, William H., IV

Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities

Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Cultures

Office Location
407 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2235

Interests: Modern Japanese language, literature, and culture; Race and ethnicity in modern Japanese literature and culture; Contemporary Japanese popular culture, especially anime; 20th-century African American literature; Literary theory, especially African American literary theory and the theory of the novel; Translation (theory and practice); Rhetoric and composition; Digital Humanities

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Kristin Doughty

Doughty, Kristin

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Office Location
437 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5155

Interests: political and legal anthropology; politics of reconciliation; transitional justice; violence and conflict; memory; politics of energy; Africa; Rwanda

Joshua Dubler

Dubler, Joshua

Associate Professor of Religion

Director, Rochester Education Justice Initiative

Office Location
428A Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
(585) 275-4756

Interests: Religion in America

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Ealey, Jordan

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Assistant Professor, Department of Black Studies

Interests: Black feminist theory and praxis; Black theatre and performance; Nineteenth and twentieth century Black intellectual history, sound studies, popular music, and Black girlhood studies

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Hunter, Cory

Assistant Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Assistant Professor of Musicology, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
1-341 Dewey Hall

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Cilas Kemedjio

Kemedjio, Cilas

Professor of French

Office Location
406 Lattimore
Telephone
(585) 275--425

Interests: Francophone Caribbean and African literary and cultural studies; postcolonial theory; transnational black studies; humanitarianism

Jennifer Kyker

Kyker, Jennifer

Academic Leave 2024-2025

Associate Professor of Music, Arthur Satz Department of Music, School of Arts & Sciences

Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Eastman School of Music

Office Location
1-308 Dewey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0239

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Kathryn Mariner

Mariner, Kathryn

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Office Location
444 Lattimore Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8734

Interests: intimacy and social inequality; politics of race, class and gender; temporality; kinship and adoption; care; social work; space and place; visual anthropology; United States

Marshall, Cona

Assistant Professor of American Religions

Office Location
431 Rush Rhees Library
Telephone
Office (585) 275-9368

Interests: Womanism, Black feminism, the Black church (as an institution), and African American public religious rhetoric

Professor McCune.

McCune, Jeffrey Q., Jr.

Frederick Douglass Professor

Associate Professor of English

Associate Professor of Black Studies

Founding Chair, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
311B Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-5346
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Michael, John

John Hall Deane Professor of Rhetoric and Poetry

Professor of English

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director, American Studies

Interim Chair, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
405 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-9259

Interests: American literature; critical theory; cultural studies

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Omelsky, Matthew

Assistant Professor of English

Assistant Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Black Studies

Office Location
417 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2376

Interests: Global black cultural studies; African, African American, and Caribbean literatures; film and media studies; speculative aesthetics; time and phenomenology; critical theory.

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Jeffrey Tucker

Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

Associate Professor of English

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of English

Office Location
418 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2064

Interests: African-American literature; 20th-century American literature; science fiction

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Sharon Willis

Willis, Sharon

Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Fine Arts

Professor of Art and Art History

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Office Location
517 Morey Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5757

Interests: Film history and theory; visual and cultural studies; women's studies and feminist theory; comparative literature and critical theory; French cinema; 19th and 20th century French literature